Nandinayakan is a historical novel based on events that took place around the middle of sixteenth century in the kingdom of Vijayanagar in Southern India.
Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery. The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the person who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
-Swami Vivekananda